And the director had nominated an art teacher to help them find a mythical fraternity of Satanists.

In addition, they say, neither Mike Nichols, the director of "Death and the Maiden," nor Gregory Mosher, the director of the revival of "A Streetcar Named Desire," was discussed, either - or nominated.

This was his first time working with Academy Award nominated director, Joe Wright, who also directed, Pride and Predjudice, Atonement, and Hanna.

The director of this episode, Jeff Melman, also submitted this episode for consideration for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, but was neither nominated as well.

This peculiar discrepancy, however, is the result of the voting procedure by which only directors nominate directors, while the entire academy membership votes on the nominations for best film.

And, of course, there's the little detail (as phrased by Bob Fischbach of the Omaha World-Herald) that "for Oscar nominations, only actors nominate actors, only directors nominate directors, only writers nominate writers and so on.

Stijn Coninx, director of Academy Award nominated film "Daens"

Mr. Levitt proposed requiring that a majority of mutual fund directors, instead of the present 40 percent, be independent of the firm managing the fund and that independent directors nominate their replacements.

One is the budget director, Alice M. Rivlin, nominated to be Fed vice chairman, and the other is Laurence H. Meyer, an economic forecaster.

Cumulative voting, which is required under a Federal charter, unless special dispensation is granted by regulators, is favored by dissident shareholders because it is easier for them to concentrate their votes and elect directors not nominated by management.